Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[Pio1980]

https://www.businessinsider.com/mont...p-money-2020-5

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

https://www.businessinsider.com/mont...p-money-2020-5

The grift goes on.

[Chicks]

Republican-led states signal they could strip workers’ unemployment benefits if they don’t return to work, sparking fresh safety fears
The message to workers is ‘endanger your life or starve,’ critics say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...ment-benefits/

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Republican-led states signal they could strip workers’ unemployment benefits if they don’t return to work, sparking fresh safety fears
The message to workers is ‘endanger your life or starve,’ critics say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...ment-benefits/

UH-huh. This is the 'freedom' the open-it-up guys are protesting for!

[Oerets]

Ahh, going from a essential to a sacrificial worker!

[Chicks]

Red states will soon come to blue states for bailouts. Democrats should remember what happened to Europe
In the short-term, hard-hit states like New York needed help. But that's all about to change

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-a9498236.html

It has long been the case that blue states have subsidized the state budgets of red states, whatever Mitch McConnell says. This presents a challenge to the traditional Republican claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility, with the low income tax rates offered by Republican lawmakers being paid for by the financial prudence of Democratic politicians. The tax structure of blue and red states will exacerbate this issue as lockdowns continue. Of the ‘Big Four’ (California, Florida, New York and Texas), the two red states are likely to see their state finances thrown into the greatest turmoil. This is because Texas and Florida make up their state budgets with sales taxes (and no one is buying anything) while California and New York rely on taxes on incomes (which will decline during coronavirus, but will not drop off altogether since most high earners are able to work from home).

While southern European economies have endured unfavorable comparisons to more financially stable northern European countries, Republicans have long falsely claimed that it is in fact red states which fund the financial recklessness of blue states. For a long time, this narrative was left unchallenged; however, in the current situations, Democrats and in particular Gov. Andrew Cuomo have publicly hit back whenever it’s been wheeled out to appease (or rile up) Republican voters. There’s a chance people will start to see beyond the spin and that the narrative may soon completely collapse.

Democrats should seek to change the narrative surrounding state finances. Democrats need to more forcefully show that the tax structures of blue states lead to greater stability than the system favoured in red states. They should also use this as an opportunity to show that a system which favors public services funded by income taxes is not only possible but practical — especially in unforeseen situations and emergencies.

When red states come cap-in-hand to Congress in the coming months, Democrats should take the opportunity to demonstrate the fiscal security offered by a progressive system. That way, the entire country benefits — and their own party may well also get a boost in the November election.

[Chicks]

We Are Living in a Failed State
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...itions/610261/

The crisis demanded a response that was swift, rational, and collective. The United States reacted instead like Pakistan or Belarus—like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering. The administration squandered two irretrievable months to prepare. From the president came willful blindness, scapegoating, boasts, and lies. From his mouthpieces, conspiracy theories and miracle cures. A few senators and corporate executives acted quickly—not to prevent the coming disaster, but to profit from it. When a government doctor tried to warn the public of the danger, the White House took the mic and politicized the message.

Every morning in the endless month of March, Americans woke up to find themselves citizens of a failed state. With no national plan—no coherent instructions at all—families, schools, and offices were left to decide on their own whether to shut down and take shelter. When test kits, masks, gowns, and ventilators were found to be in desperately short supply, governors pleaded for them from the White House, which stalled, then called on private enterprise, which couldn’t deliver. States and cities were forced into bidding wars that left them prey to price gouging and corporate profiteering. Civilians took out their sewing machines to try to keep ill-equipped hospital workers healthy and their patients alive. Russia, Taiwan, and the United Nations sent humanitarian aid to the world’s richest power—a beggar nation in utter chaos.

Repubes have been destroying this country for decades. They must be so proud.

[Chicks]

Lincoln Project has its biggest day of fundraising after president* attacks ‘Never Trump’ group

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/linc...cks-group.html

Great work, Donny!

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Chicks

We Are Living in a Failed State
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...itions/610261/


Repubes have been destroying this country for decades. They must be so proud.

Nothing on outsourcing.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Nothing on outsourcing.

An irritating comment. Why is your three-word dismissal in any way more than a nonsensical non-sequitur, as a response to a detailed article that supports the opinion that "The crisis demanded a response that was swift, rational, and collective. The United States reacted instead like Pakistan or Belarus—like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering."

Even if we accept that supply chain issues that existed in January of this year meant PPE shortages were baked-in to the situation, that hardly makes the mismanagement, misallocation, and corruption of the Trump administration's approach to medical equipment supply any less than a deadly criminal fiasco. And that is to say nothing of the corrupt promotion of dangerous unproven 'cures,' including the patently idiotic advocacy of internal disinfectant use. And it says nothing of the avoidance of the necessary investment (one estimate i saw was $250 billion) in widespread testing that would enable tracking and suppression, while allocating multiples of that amount to corporate giveaways. And it says nothing of the amoral lassiez-faire policy that is emerging: open the country, let the old and the black and brown die.

Seems to me that what you say nothing about far exceeds what you say the article says nothing about.